Luis Alvarado

Luis Alvarado was a Republican strategist and political commentator.

Biography
Luis Alvarado was born in Los Angeles, California, one of five children born to Mexican immigrant parents. He worked as a telephone fundraiser for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush during their successful 1980, 1984, and 1988 presidential campaigns, and he was involved in private industry for several years before becoming deputy press secretary for the California Republican Party and senior advisor to Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign. As a CNN political commentator, he stood in solidarity with Democratic stratetigst Maria Cardona when, on 10 August 2019, he categorically criticized white supremacism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and Donald Trump's xenophobic rhetoric, saying that the issue of white supremacy was not a partisan one, but one which affected all Hispanics and all Americans.